Once you hit Release 1.0, your system will be living in the real world. It has to survive everything the messy, noisy real world can throw at it: from flash mobs to Twitter. Once the public starts beating on your system, it has to survive–without you.

Did you know that just having your database behind a firewall can bring down your system? You’ll learn about that and many other risks to your system. You will learn the biggest risks and how to counter them with stability design patterns. We’ll talk about the best way to define the term “availability” and why the textbooks get it all wrong.

Gitter is joining the GitLab Team, and it’s amazing! Gitter is a chat and networking platform, which became the place to connect the open source and software development community. Now, acquired by Gitlab it will be open-source, and you will be able to install on your infrastructure. Check this post to know more about the plans for Gitter.